Beard and haircut laws by country

In the Armed, Paramilitary and Law enforcement forces of India, male Sikh servicemen are allowed to grow full beards as their religion expressly requires followers to do so.

Muslim men with beards longer than two weeks of stubble can be forcibly shaved off by the Police and added to the list of violators.

[15] School dress codes in Thailand have long mandated earlobe-length bobs for girls and army-style crew cuts for boys.

It is not uncommon for teachers to cut the hair of students deemed to be in violation of the frequently arbitrary[clarification needed] code.

[18] The Han Chinese first Ming dynasty emperor Zhu Yuanzhang passed a law on mandatory hairstyle on 24 September 1392, mandating that all males grow their hair long and making it illegal for them to shave part of their foreheads while leaving strands of hair which was the Mongol hairstyle.

[19] In Qing dynasty China, all male subjects of all ethnicities were required to keep their hair in a long braid and to shave the front of their scalp.

[20] This was similar to the Qing dynasty queue order imposed by Dorgon making men shave the pates on the front of their heads.

There was a national ban of long hair for men in Singapore; the reason was the growth of hippie subculture worldwide.

[24] The Han Chinese referred to the various non-Han "barbarian" peoples of north Vietnam and southern China as "Yue" (Viet) or Baiyue, saying they possessed common habits like adapting[clarification needed] to water, having their hair cropped short and tattooed.

Vietnamese were ordered to stop cutting and instead grow their hair long and switch to Han Chinese clothing in only a month by a Ming official.

[26] A royal edict was issued by Vietnam in 1474 forbidding Vietnamese from adopting foreign languages, hairstyles and clothes like that of the Lao, Champa or the Ming "Northerners".